{"id":66952,"date":"2026-02-21T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/trump-approves-federal-emergency-declaration-for-potomac-river-sewage-spill\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:57:02","slug":"trump-approves-federal-emergency-declaration-for-potomac-river-sewage-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/trump-approves-federal-emergency-declaration-for-potomac-river-sewage-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump approves federal emergency declaration for Potomac River sewage spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of gallons of raw sewage have been pouring into the water through a ruptured pipe since last month<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> approved a federal emergency declaration Saturday related to a sewer main break north of Washington DC that threatens to put a stink on the US\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations in the US capital this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s action authorizes Fema to coordinate all disaster relief efforts to alleviate the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population and to provide appropriate assistance to save lives, to protect property, public health and safety, and to lessen the threat of catastrophe,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/press-release\/20260221\/president-donald-j-trump-approves-emergency-declaration-district-columbia\">a release<\/a> from the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/21\/trump-emergency-potomac-sewage-spill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of gallons of raw sewage have been pouring into the water through a ruptured pipe since last month Donald Trump approved a federal emergency declaration Saturday related to a sewer main break north of Washington DC that threatens to put a stink on the US\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations in the US capital this summer. &#8230; <a title=\"Trump approves federal emergency declaration for Potomac River sewage spill\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/trump-approves-federal-emergency-declaration-for-potomac-river-sewage-spill\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump approves federal emergency declaration for Potomac River sewage spill\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}